Dr. Bernadette Power is a senior lecturer in the School of Economics, University College Cork. Her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews focussed on the survival of small businesses in Scotland. Bernadette’s principal research interests are in the area of small business economics and entrepreneurship. She has published in this area in the Review of Industrial Organization, The European Journal of Finance, The Irish Journal of Management, The International Journal of the Economics of Business and in a number of Chapters in books including The Foundations of Small Business Enterprise: An Entrepreneurial Analysis of Small Firm Inception. She has received awards for her research including the recent Transeo Academic Best Paper Award by the European Association for SME Transfer. This research was IRCHSS funded project on small business succession in Ireland (with Dr. Geraldine Ryan). Her work on long-lived small firms with Prof. Gavin Reid (University of St. Andrews) has been presented at the Welsh Economic Assembly and other policy forums.

EntrepreneurshipSmall Business EconomicsEntrepreneurial ExitBusiness PerformanceFirm SurvivalReal Options Survey Research Methods

At introductory level Bernadette has taught Economic Accounting & Measurement and Quantitative Techniques in Economics to first year students. She has taught courses to intermediate and final year undergraduates including an Economic Journey Through Life Decisions, Economics of Corporate Strategy; Economic Survey Methods.At graduate level Bernadette has taught: Economic Survey Methods, Competition and Regulation, Industry, Market and Strategy Analysis, Business Growth and Innovation and Economics of Firm Strategy.